The Red Garter Florence

We got into Florence early afternoon and walked around with a tour guide to see the Duomo, outside the Uffizi gallery, the Loggia dei Lanzi museum (outdoor statue museum) and the statue of David. Florence is absolutly full of statues of people. We saw statues of well known people such as Gallilio to statues representing battles and then just plain …

... so pretty and probably became my second favorite city. Had dinner on our own then met back as a group to go to the Red Garter bar. Drinks, karaoke, lots of Australians, dancing, and lots of fun. Day 12...A beautiful day in Florence Started the day ...

... all dark wood and lit up with dozens of waxy candles, with red velvet walls. Then we went to see a place called the Red Garter, a restaurant/karoake bar. Kim and Bethany and Mark tried to conquer karoake with the Beatles , "Hey Jude" and failed ...

... and many an outdoor menu gazed upon (the restaurants all supply their menus outdoors, prior to entry) we stumbled upon "The Red Garter," an Italian sort of steakhouse. A veggie wrap, French fries, a cheeseburger and some onion rings later, I proclaimed ...

... roomies went back home to catch a quick nap/shower, we enjoyed some coffee and just hung out downtown until we went to the Red Garter for the games.  It's an American bar, and they show all the sporting events live (I can't wait for March Madness ...

... , it is insane. First night we go to a Careoke bar, as you do when you go to Flornce Pparenly, tis place is called the Red Garter. Cool, little bar, rqndon as ever, how ever they sell 2l cocktails. Awe sang and danced our hearts out, changing the tune to ...

... hey, gotta take the cheesey-im-strong-enough-to-hold-up-the-tower pictures! Anyway since the night at the Red Garter Karaoke pub in Florence, Italy, we then had another full day in Florence, seeing absolutely everything, including the Statue of David, ...

... dinner was the beer we had to pay €4 for. But the night got better after that. After dinner we went to a pub called The Red Garter for drinks. We found out that there was Heineken on tap and you could buy this one called a Shuttle which is a 3L tub ...

... evening we arrived in Florence. After a spaghetti dinner in a restaurant we and our fellow Contikians headed to a karaoke club, "The red garter". Bernie and Jess stayed away from the microphone, but enjoyed grappa and a few cocktails during happy ...

... proceeded to get knockered by the ridiculously strong margaritas. The food was good too. We went to JJ's bar as well as the Red Garter. JJ's included my first incident with skeezy Italian men. Some of them smell very bad. Like, lack of oral hygiene. But ...

... go to the pub and wait for the rest of the group. As Craig and I had nothing else to do, we decided to join him. The red garter was quite a cool little pub, and I know that if I hadn't been feeling so lousy I would have enjoyed it. People from our tour ...